TAB. CLXXIII. 
ADIANTUM CHILENSE. 
FILICES.—GrnaTz. Br. PorvPopiACER. Kaulf.  FrrLrcEs vere. illa. 
Gzw. Cuag. 44DLANTUM, Linn. ;Sori marginales, punctiformes vel lineares. — Znvolucrum e 
margine frondis replicato, disco venoso, capsulifero, limbo membranaceo, libero. 
ADIANTUM cAilense; fronde tripinnata, pinnis breviter petiolatis subrigidis reniformi-cuneatis radi- 
atim venosis crenatis, involucris transversim oblongis approximatis, stipite rachique nitidis 
glaberrimis. 
&. glabra; frondibus ubique glaberrimis. 
Adiantum chilense. Kau/f. Enum. Fil. p.207. Spreng. Syst, P'esct. v. 4. p. 914. 
B. hirsuta; pinnarum venis utrinque laxe pilosis. (Ts. 173.) 
Has. In Peru, Chile. Chamisso. (9. In fissuris rupium intra «La Guardia et La Punta de 
Quilliay," et in aliis convallibus Andium Chilensium, alt. 5000 ped. J. Gillies, M. D. 
Stipes erectus, digitalis et ultra, teres, atro-purpureus, nitidus, crassitie pennsa passerinze. 
Frons spithamseus, circumscriptione late ovata, obtusa, tripinnata, pinnis erecto-patentibus pinnulisque alternis. 
Pinnule petiolo brevi insidentes, rigidiusculse, subrotundo-reniformes, nunc basi fere truncatze plerumque 
medio cuneato-attenuatz, crenatse, pulcherrime radiatim venosz, venis dichotomis, in a. glabris, in (4. pilosis, 
pilis longis, flexuosis, sparsis, nitidis. Ztachis universalis partialisque fusco-purpureus, nitidus. 
Sori transversim oblongi, approximati, in omnibus pinnulis, demum confluentes. 
* Joolucrum colore et substantia frondis, incurvum, parce pilosum. 
Capsule numerose, annulo fere completo cinctze, brevissime stipitatoe. 
Semina ovalia, leevia. 
Fig.1. Pinnula. f 2. Capsule. f 3. Semina:—magn. auct. 
Our figure of this very pretty species of a most beautiful genus, represents what we here consider 
the var. Q. of Professor Kaulfuss's z4diantum chilense, and was drawn from Dr. Gillies's Specimens. 
At the same time we may observe, that it is probably the more perfect state of the plant, which in 
age loses all traces of hairiness: for an authentic specimen from Kaulfuss himself precisely corre- 
sponds with ours, except in the peculiarity just mentioned, and in being darker-coloured, with less 
gloss and with more advanced capsules. Às a species, it is one of the most distinct we are acquainted 
with of this difficult genus. 
